Aerospace students learning about ultrasonic testing
When it comes to aerospace, ultrasonic testing can turn up potential defects in both plane parts or existing aircraft, and this week local college students are attending an advanced class on how to inspect planes and parts for structural defects. KXLY4 #39;s Jeff Humphrey reports.
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Kerbal Space Program - Improved Aerodynamics With Ferram Aerospace Research Mod
Ferram Aerospace Research is an excellent mod that replaces most of Kerbal Space Program #39;s aerodynamic model with something that is closer to reality.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems will showcase its comprehensive global customer support capabilities at this year's MRO Middle East trade show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. MRO Middle East will be held at the Dubai World Trade Center on January 21-23, 2013. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTX).
UTC Aerospace Systems will be exhibiting at booth 409. Visit the display for the latest solutions in maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), provisioning, and technical support and innovative ways UTC Aerospace Systems helps customers to operate more efficiently.
With a simplified customer interface, UTC Aerospace Systems provides a full array of support capabilities for its product offerings. Services are accessed through an easy-to-use online customer portal, which quickly equips customers with tools and solutions they need to reduce aircraft down-time. UTC Aerospace Systems' experienced Customer Service teams consistently deliver enhanced product reliability, reduced total life cycle costs, and dependable performance. More than 6,000 customer service employees across 26 countries are dedicated to the operation of 64 MRO and service centers, providing support 24/7/365.
UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.
United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high-technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.
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Full of Fears for The Annapurna- Am I Endangering My Kids- World Travel With Kids
http://www.thenomadicfamily.com One Stupid, Beautiful Idea! Not your boring we-are-so-perfectly-happy-on-the-road blah, blah, blah blog. Voted TOP TEN FAMILY TRAVEL BLOGS by Washington Post Communities because WE #39;RE HONEST. We cry, fight, and share when we seriously regret this lifestyle choice. We #39;re so normal it #39;s embarrassing.2 insane parents+ 3 very patient kids= 1 adventure of a lifetime. (Oh, and I like to curse. You have been forewarned.) WE ARE DYING FOR 1000 LIKES ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND 1000 TWITTER FRIENDS! Can you please help us? Tell your friends. Twitter http://www.twitter.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Get our blog in your inbox: http://www.thenomadicfamily.com Subscribe to our Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com
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Springhill Medical Group-What is Stem Cell Therapy?
springhillmedgroup.com We have been hearing about this stem cell lately but does everyone know about what this really is? According to medical researchers, stem cell treatments have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering. There are already many stem treatments nowadays but they are not usually used because they tend to be experimental and they are very expensive. Medical researchers foresee being able to use technologies derived from stem cell research to treat cancer, spinal cord injuries, and muscle damage, amongst a number of other diseases and impairments. This stem cell therapy is established in order to treat disease or injury by introducing new adult stem cells into damaged tissue. Stem cell therapy is an intervention strategy. The good thing about stem cell is that there are minimal risk of rejection and side effects. They have the ability to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities. They also offer significant potential for generation of tissues that can potentially replace diseased and damaged areas in the body. It has been said that there are already a number of stem-cell therapies that exist but most are costly. But bone-marrow transplantation, to some extent has exemption.
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What Is Spirituality Today?
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KSP Space Station weekly update #1
My rather tiny Space station in ksp. 15 likes by the end of this Febuary for a weekly satalite show. 🙂
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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Part One - Baby Steps [HD]
Follow the shenanigans of Link and Luke on Space Station 13, as they attempt to maintain the station. Luke is the experienced Medical Assistant, whilst Link is a total noob on any aspect of the game. Watch Link cause unintentional malfunctions to random systems, dismantling the ship without any knowledge that the thing he #39;s about to smash will trigger a string of events that will eventually end up killing Luke. In this episode Link gets undressed, learns some basics to the game. I hope you enjoy the series, as me and Luke are having loads of fun playing it. The game does come with lag, so it #39;s not entirely my fault. Enjoy!
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The Tribloos 2 - Space Station 15a-22-weath Bonus Level
Well, it #39;s really easy even though this is the last level... Connect all circuits, then pull the lever to damage the machine. This is the end of the story, but still challenge levels remain...
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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Part Two - Monkey Business [HD]
In this episode Luke and Link decide that abusing animals is not only sickening, but tremendously entertaining when splashing sulphuric acid in a monkey #39;s face and making it forevermore retarded by whacking it with a crowbar. Link apparently "dispenses Luke #39;s toolbox out of an air lock," and hits Luke with a piece of paper, whilst Luke endeavours to keep the place running.
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HD EARTH VIEWS FROM SPACE STATION (2009) [with music] - Public Domain Universe - NASA
HD EARTH VIEWS FROM SPACE STATION (2009) [with music] - Public Domain Universe - NASA In celebration of Earth Day, NASA presented us images of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station. Traveling at an approximate speed of 17500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles, and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day. Note: Public Domain Universe is not affiliated with NASA in any way and NASA does not endorse Public Domain Universe. The only reason this can be seen on this channel is because NASA gives general permission for people to use their material under some conditions. Consult this link: http://www.nasa.gov Music was added to the original video (which was completely silent) to hopefully give it some mood (not that beautiful shots of the Earth aren #39;t already good for giving you emotions of course). The track is "New Direction" by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com, an artist with a free library of songs you can use for your projects such as this. As permitted by the license, the work was adapted to fit the length of this video, which means you should still give a listen to the original piece. Anyway, below is the license information for this piece: New Direction Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org PUBLIC DOMAIN UNIVERSE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com ...
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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Part Three - Alien Antics [HD]
In this episode Link is petrified as the station power to lighting is cut and an intruder alert alarm goes off. His only course of action is to cry in a corner and anticipate the worst, as glass gets smashed, eerie noises echo down the corridors and sinister extra-terrestrials wait in the darkness. In the end he is traumatised by what he experiences.
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KSP v018-2 Space Station Ring Complete
Yay!!! The ring is complete. A couple if mishaps slowed progress, but Jebediah and his remote control rocketry never gave up hope. A nice home for up to 48 Kerbals i think you #39;ll agree. In hindsight, dual docking ports would have removed alignment issues that began to worry Bill Kerman in the later stages of coupling. Bob has also instructed the engineers to refrain from glitching parts within docking nodes in future. This should reduce the number of weaknesses that the space Kraken can exploit. MKII is in development, adhering to our brave Kerbonauts advice. Suggestions for further developments are welcome.
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Music Space Station - Multiple Virtual Piano
Original 3D animation was uploaded in 2007! youtu.be
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. - NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome "metal cans" that now serve as astronauts' homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap.
A $17.8 million test project will send to the International Space Station an inflatable room that can be compressed into a 2.1-metre tube for delivery, officials said Wednesday in a news conference at North Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace.
If the module proves durable during two years at the space station, it could open the door to habitats on the moon and missions to Mars, NASA engineer Glen Miller said.
The agency chose Bigelow for the contract because it was the only company working on inflatable technology, said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver.
Founder and president Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune in the hotel industry before getting into the space business in 1999, framed the gambit as an out-of-this-world real-estate venture. He hopes to sell his spare tire habitats to scientific companies and wealthy adventurers looking for space hotels.
NASA is expected to install the four-metre, blimp-like module in a space station port by 2015. Bigelow plans to begin selling stand-alone space homes the next year.
The new technology provides three times as much room as the existing aluminum models, and is also easier and less costly to build, Miller said.
Artist renderings of the module resemble a tinfoil clown nose grafted onto the main station. It is hardly big enough to be called a room. Miller described it as a large closet with padded white walls and gear and gizmos strung from two central beams.
Garver said Wednesday that sending a small inflatable tube into space will be dramatically cheaper than launching a full-sized module.
"Let's face it; the most expensive aspect of taking things in space is the launch," she said. "So the magnitude of importance of this for NASA really can't be overstated."
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NASAs Amazing High Definition images of Stars, Nebulas, Galaxys, and Black Holes taken by NASA!
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Photos of UFO deleted by NASA #39;s Website! (2013 Images)
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A daring, "Angry Birds"-like NASA mission could bombard a Martian moon with robotic "hedgehog" probes in the next few decades, scientists say.
The space hedgehogs are actually small, spiky, spherical rovers that form part of a novel mission idea called Phobos Surveyor. The rovers would take advantage of the low gravity on the Mars moon Phobos, its sister moon Deimos, or asteroids in the solar system. Engineers have designed the devices to work in concert with a nearby mother ship.
The hedgehogs would work well in the low gravity of the 16-mile-wide (27 kilometers) Phobos, a force 1,000 times weaker than the gravity on Mars itself, where NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers currently explore, said researcher Marco Pavone of Stanford University. Gravity on Mars is about one-third that of the Earth.
"The problem with [conventional] rovers is, in low gravity, you don't have any traction. That means your wheels spin and you do not move," said Pavone, who developed the hedgehog mission concept. [Boldest Mars Missions in History]
Robot hedgehogs in space
Instead of using wheels to move across a planetary surface, however, the hedgehogs would use internal, rotating discs. Plans call for three discs encased in each hedgehog. Each spacecraft would measure about 2 feet (0.6 meters) in diameter, and NASA has already built a prototype version, researchers said.
The three discs inside a hedgehog point in different directions, giving controllers the ability to move the devices with precision, Pavone said. Slightly speeding up the discs can send the hedgehogs tumbling, and a quick spin can make the hedgehog hop to a nearby location, he added.
To get to Phobos, the hedgehogs will potentially hitch a ride inside the proposed Phobos Surveyor, which could be a Discovery-class NASA mission with a cost of about $250 million and a streamlined development schedule to meet its science goals. At best, the Phobos mission could launch in 10 to 20 years, but that assumes the concept is approved and funded.
The exploitation of inertial motion is not entirely new to space exploration, as the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft pursued a similar idea. That craft released a small lander while above the asteroid Itokawa.
Dubbed MINERVA (for MIcro/Nano Experimental Robot Vehicle for Asteroid), Hayabusa's tiny lander was supposed to bounce on the asteroid using rotating actuators. But it never made it to the surface.
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Image Caption: The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a clean room at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sunnyvale, Calif. facility. The solar arrays are deployed in the configuration they will assume when in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin
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NASAs next Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to study the little-understood lower levels of the suns atmosphere has been fully integrated and final testing is underway.
Scheduled to launch in April 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) will make use of high-resolution images, data and advanced computer models to unravel how matter, light, and energy move from the suns 6,000 K (10,240 F / 5,727 C) surface to its million K (1.8 million F / 999,700 C) outer atmosphere, the corona. Such movement ultimately heats the suns atmosphere to temperatures much hotter than the surface, and also powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which can have societal and economic impacts on Earth.
This is the first time well be directly observing this region since the 1970s, says Joe Davila, IRIS project scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Were excited to bring this new set of observations to bear on the continued question of how the corona gets so hot.
A fundamentally mysterious region that helps drive heat into the corona, the lower levels of the atmosphere namely two layers called the chromosphere and the transition region have been notoriously hard to study. IRIS will be able to tease apart whats happening there better than ever before by providing observations to pinpoint physical forces at work near the surface of the sun.
The mission carries a single instrument: an ultraviolet telescope combined with an imaging spectrograph that will both focus on the chromosphere and the transition region. The telescope will see about one percent of the sun at a time and resolve that image to show features on the sun as small as 150 miles (241.4 km) across. The instrument will capture a new image every five to ten seconds, and spectra about every one to two seconds. Spectra will cover temperatures from 4,500 K to 10,000,000 K (7,640 F/4,227 C to 18 million F/10 million C), with images covering temperatures from 4,500 K to 65,000 K (116,500 F/64,730 C).
These unique capabilities will be coupled with state of the art 3-D numerical modeling on supercomputers, such as Pleiades, housed at NASAs Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Indeed, recent improvements in computer power to analyze the large amount of data is crucial to why IRIS will provide better information about the region than ever seen before.
The interpretation of the IRIS spectra is a major effort coordinated by the IRIS science team that will utilize the full extent of the power of the most advanced computational resources in the world. It is this new capability, along with development of state of the art codes and numerical models by the University of Oslo that captures the complexities of this region, which make the IRIS mission possible. Without these important elements we would be unable to fully interpret the IRIS spectra, said Alan Title, the IRIS principal investigator at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif.
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A NASA spacecraft that constantly stares at the sun for signs of solar storms snaps images and videos so detailed that even the latest ultra-high-definition televisions can't keep up.
The spacecraft, called the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is responsible for some of the mostamazing photos of solar flaresand other sun weather events. Its instrumentsrecord images at a whopping resolution of 4,096 by 4,096 pixels, more than four times the resolution an average HD television.
SDO sun images are even recorded in higher definition than the newly released "Ultra-HD TV" machines unveiled at the2013 Consumer Electronics Showcaseearlier this month. While Ultra-HD TVs have about four times the resolution of an average HD TV, the SDO photos are still twice as large as an Ultra-HD screen, NASA officials said in a statement.
"Such detailed pictures show features on the sun that are as small as 200 miles across, helping researchers observe such things as what causes giant eruptions on the sun known as coronal mass ejections (CME) that can travel toward Earth and interfere with our satellites," they explained.
While features 200 miles (322 kilometers) across sound large, the sun itself is 864,938 miles (1.3 million km) in diameter.
NASA's SDO mission launched in February 2010 to record unprecedented views of the sun, solar flares and other space weather events. As of December 2012, the spacecraft had captured more than 100 million images of the sun, about the equivalent of eight hours of TV programming a day for four months, mission managers said.
The SDO spacecraft is one of several space observatories keeping a constant watch on the sun. NASA's twin Stereo spacecraft and the NASA/ESA SOHO spacecraft also provide daily views of the Earth's closest star.
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